THREE YEARS' WAR - GENERAL DE WET

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Hardcover. Binding loose.

1902. First edition.

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons.

448 pages. Worn condition. Last page (blank) torn out. Includes map.

On October 11th, 1899, when the second war ('Great Boer War') between Britain and the Boer republics began, Christiaan de Wet was a common burgher in the ranks of the Heilbron Commando. When the war ended three years later, he held the rank of Vecht-Generaal ('field general') He had established a worldwide reputation as a most remarkable guerrilla fighter. De Wet was the man the British could not catch. The damage that this virtually unschooled farmer who had never had a formal lesson in military tactics did was nothing less than astonishing. This book, his own account of the Boer was is a true classic of military history literature. Africana

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